Category Archives: Business economics

Services and products, a match made in heaven

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ray

In all the hoopla about company’s increasing services revenues what seems to be missing is that hardware and software sales automatically drive lots of services revenues. A recent Wikibon post by Doug Chandler (see Can cloud pull services and technology … Continue reading →

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Information commerce – part 2

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Ray

I wrote a post a while back about how interplanetary commerce could be stimulated through the use of information commerce (see my Information based inter-planetary commerce post).  Last week I saw an article in the Economist magazine that discussed new 3D-printers used … Continue reading →

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Real-time data analytics from customer interactions

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Ray

At a recent EMC product launch in New York, there was a customer question and answer session for industry analysts with four of EMC’s leading edge customers. One customer, Marco Pacelli, was the CEO of ClickFox, a company providing real-time data … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to holographic storage?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Ray

Although InPhase Technologies and a few other startups had taken a shot at holographic storage over time, there has not been any recent innovation here that I can see. Ecosystems matter The real problem (which InPhase was trying to address) … Continue reading →

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Commodity hardware always loses

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Ray

A recent post by Stephen Foskett has revisted a blog discussion that Chuck Hollis and I had on commodity vs. special purpose hardware.  It’s clear to me that commodity hardware is a losing proposition for the storage industry and for … Continue reading →

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Why cloud, why now?

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Ray

I have been struggling for sometime now to understand why cloud computing and cloud storage have suddenly become so popular.  We have previously discussed some of cloud problems (here and here) but we have never touched on why cloud has … Continue reading →

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Future iBook pricing

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Ray

All the news about iPad and iBooks app got me thinking. There’s been much discussion on e-book pricing but no one is looking at what to charge for items other than books.  I look at this as something like what … Continue reading →

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